While staying with my daughter recently who lives in East Perth we had the occasion to visit the East Perth Cemetery on Cemetery Hill which I had always wanted to see but as it is only open on Sunday afternoon between 2-4 I have not had the chance to before.  This old cemetery which operated from 1829 up and was the principal burial ground for the Perth area to 1899 and it is widely acknowledged that there are over 10,000 burials within the grounds of the East Perth Cemetery. There were no burial registers kept by either the Church Wardens or the caretakers of the Cemeteries. This led to researchers having to spend many hours compiling various histories and datasets on the East Perth Cemetery. More on the cemetery can be found @ East Perth Cemetery

East Perth Cemetery and church.

I noticed from reading the headstones that there were several graves of Coolgardie People so I photographed these. Not till returning home and searching the East Perth Cemetery web page I found other mentions of those either born in or were residents of Coolgardie and these I have listed below. A number, as to be expected, are infants but other adults include the infamous Father Long of the ‘Father Long Hoax’ at Kanowna.

GREENWOOD Lachlan John Aged 3mths Born Coolgardie 1899 Father:- John GREENWOOD Mother:- Annie nee DINES DOD 10th Oct 1899

GILLETT Ethel Elizabeth Aged 1yr 3mths, Born Coolgardie 1897 Father:- William Beadle GILLETT Mother:- Mary Alice nee PERKINS. DOD 28th Mar 1898

FEIN Evelyn Muriel Aged 9 weeks Born Coolgardie Father:- Barnett FEIN Mother:- Ethel Maud Jessie nee PODMORE  DOD 4th Apr 1898 Also buried Barno (Barnett) FEIN aged 34yrs, Hotel Keeper of Coolgardie Russian, DOD 14th Jun 1898

SULLIVAN Gerard Age 1yr 1 mth, Born Coolgardie 1897, Father:- John SULLIVAN Mother:- Mary Ann nee RYAN DOD: 8th Jan 1898

WALTON Olive Isabella Bainbridge Aged 3mths, Born Coolgardie 1899, Father:- Jacob WALTON Mother:- Eliza nee McKAY DOD: 7th Apr 1899

VON ZALINSKI John Max Aged 6mths, Born Coolgardie Father Paul VON ZALINSKI Mother:- Lavinnia Harriet nee HUDSON DOD 29 Aug 1898.

FAAHAN Mary Emma Aged 28yrs, wife of William Michael Faahan of the Club Hotel, Coolgardie; died 11/04/1942 Coolgardie DOD: 1st Jul 1895. William was to remarry the following year to Cecelia Knighton and they had a daughter, Marguerite, born in Coolgardie in 1904. Cecilia was to die herself in 1913 and William was to stay in Coolgardie and he died and was buried there in 1942.

Mary Faahn East Perth Cemetery

DUNCAN Leonard Alfred Newman Aged 25yrs, Resident of Coolgardie, Father:- James A DUNCAN Mother: Jane Mary nee GILLIGAN DOD: 28th Jan 1895

CALLER Annie Aged 36yrs, Father Edward KEAYS Mother Bridget nee O’BRIEN, sister of Norah and Bridget KEAYS of Coolgardie. DOD 1st Jan 1896 Died in childbirth.

Annie Caller, East Perth Cemetery

GROVES Elizabeth aged 51yrs, Nurse in Coolgardie, Born Ireland Parents John and Mary ABBOTT, Spouse George Groves alias Green; William Henry Smith DOD 28th Dec 1897

HUNTER Jessie Duncan Aged 27yrs, Wife of William HUNTER of Coolgardie, DOD 17th Nov 1895

Jessie Hunter East Perth Cemetery

HAINES Evan Paul Arbuthnot Aged 36yrs, Mine Manager from Coolgardie, Drowned, Father:- Field Marshall Sir Frederick Paul Haines Mother:- Charlotte Jane Sophia Spouse;- Ellen Barris DOD: 8th Dec 1896

LONG Dennis Paul (Reverend Father; Roman Catholic Priest) From Ireland. Infamous for the ‘Father Long Hoax‘ at Kanowna,Aged 26yrs, DOD 17th May 1899.

WALKER William George Buchanan Age 25yrs, From Ireland, Police Constable from Coolgardie. DOD: 21st May 1895

O’DONNELL William Aged 46yrs, From Cork Ireland, Resident of Coolgardie. DOD 1st May 1895

HORWOOD Florence Emma nee Cheshire Aged 21yrs, wife of Frank Butler Horwood Mine Manager of Mount Burgess Mine Coolgardie. DOD: 22nd Jan 1895